Fantasy: My Wife is the Empress, and Our Cute Kids Wreak Havoc in the Nine Provinces – Chapter 95

Chapter 95: Can You Drink the Water from the Divine Sword Pool?

“Divine Sword Pavilion Artifact Spirit? What’s that?”

Chu Xin and Chu Chen were full of doubts.

The little two-headed pig next to them trembled, immediately stopping the refinement of the ancient treasure. It tossed the ancient treasure to the old man and scurried behind Chu Xin and Chu Chen to hide.

“Little Pig, why are you hiding?”

Chu Chen bent down and grabbed the little two-headed pig by its tail, lifting it upside down, and asked curiously.

Oink! Oink!

The little two-headed pig’s body was suspended upside down in the air, spinning around. Every half turn, it would see the kind-faced old man, making it squeal anxiously. It kicked its four hooves, but unfortunately, no one could understand what it was saying.

The old man glanced at the little two-headed pig and said with a smile, “Divine artifacts have spirits, which are called artifact spirits.”

“Divine artifact? Is it more powerful than an Emperor Weapon?”

Chu Xin tilted her head, eating the treasure while asking curiously.

“Dad never mentioned divine artifacts,” Chu Chen muttered softly.

The old man was a little speechless and didn’t dwell on this question. He pointed to the remaining ancient treasures and said again, “Little friends, can you return these treasures to this old man?”

“No!”

Chu Xin and Chu Chen put all the treasures into their spatial rings, baring their teeth at the old man.

They had worked hard to dig up these ancient treasures. There was no way they would hand them over.

Chu Xin threatened in a childishly fierce voice, “Grandpa, do you want to steal our treasures? We are very powerful.”

“Yes, we are very powerful,” Chu Chen nodded repeatedly.

Chu Xin threatened again, “If Grandpa dares to steal our treasures, I will spank your butt until it blossoms.”

“Yes, spank your butt until it blossoms,” Chu Chen echoed, nodding again.

The old man frowned slightly and explained patiently, “Little friends, these ancient treasures are the foundation of the Divine Sword Pavilion’s protective formation. If you eat all these foundations, the Divine Sword Pavilion will have no protective formation.”

As the artifact spirit of the Divine Sword Pavilion, he basically slept all the time, only waking up when the Divine Sword Pavilion was about to open to the outside world, opening the formation for those who came to seek treasures.

Previously, Chu Xin and Chu Chen had eaten the rune characters on the Divine Sword Pavilion’s plaque, waking him up from his slumber prematurely.

Having guarded the Divine Sword Pavilion for countless years, he had seen countless prodigies and countless strange things, but this was the first time he had seen brats eating the characters on the Divine Sword Pavilion’s plaque.

He was instantly furious and summoned the endless sword Qi of the Divine Sword Pavilion to kill these two brats.

But he never expected that these two brats, despite their young age, were so clever. They led the Divine Sword Pavilion’s sword Qi to destroy the Divine Sword Pavilion’s protective formation, allowing those prodigies to enter the Divine Sword Pavilion ahead of time.

But this was not a big deal. Let them enter early. Anyway, his task was to open the protective formation regularly and wait for the destined ones.

Moreover, he couldn’t leave the artifact spirit space unless absolutely necessary, so he planned to continue sleeping.

But not long after he fell asleep, he sensed that the protective formation had been damaged. When he woke up to check, he was almost angered to death.

These two brats had dug up half of the protective formation’s foundation and even eaten several of them.

Damn brats, there are so many demon beasts and ferocious beasts here, and various spiritual fruits. What’s not good to eat, but they had to eat the foundation?

The Divine Sword Pavilion itself was not an offensive divine artifact. Its only means of attacking enemies was the protective formation.

After the foundation was dug up, the protective formation was damaged, and he, as the artifact spirit, could no longer control the Divine Sword Pavilion’s sword Qi to attack. Otherwise, he would have already started chasing them.

Although as an artifact spirit, he could teleport the two brats to any place in the Divine Sword Pavilion, or even teleport them out, but then he wouldn’t be able to get back the foundation they had dug up.

After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to come out and have a good talk with these two brats.

“That’s good. This way, we can come and go freely in the Divine Sword Pavilion in the future.”

Chu Xin and Chu Chen were even happier to hear this.

The old man rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on.

Having not interacted with people for countless years, he was not good at conversation, let alone with two brats whose thinking was obviously different from that of adults. It was even more impossible to communicate.

He thought for a moment and said, “Little friends, these foundations are not tasty. This old man has something more delicious, and it contains more powerful energy. Do you want to try it?”

“Something more delicious? Where is it?”

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Chu Xin and Chu Chen’s eyes lit up when they heard this.

Seeing this, the old man smiled triumphantly.

Heh, I’m a dignified artifact spirit of a divine artifact. Can I not handle two brats?

He smiled slightly and said, “If you return these foundations to this old man, I will send you there. How about it?”

Chu Chen took another bite of the ancient treasure in his hand, pulled Chu Xin’s clothes, and asked in a low voice, “Sister, he smiles like a bad guy. Is he lying to us?”

“Possibly. We need to make him stick a Truth Talisman on himself before we can ask.”

Chu Xin also felt that the old man’s words were not very credible. She took out a Truth Talisman and said, “Grandpa, stick this on yourself. If it’s true, we will return these ancient treasures to you.”

“Truth Talisman?”

The old man’s mouth twitched slightly. These two brats were young, but they were quite shrewd. He wondered how their parents had taught them.

“Alright!”

However, the old man did not refuse. He let Chu Xin stick the Truth Talisman on him.

“Grandpa, is there really something more delicious and with stronger energy?”

Chu Xin asked impatiently.

“Of course!”

The old man’s eyes were a little dull, and he nodded.

“What’s the delicious thing called? Where is it?” Chu Chen asked.

The old man said woodenly, “It’s called the Divine Sword Fruit, in the Divine Sword Pool.”

“Divine Sword Fruit?”

Chu Chen turned to Chu Xin and asked, “Sister, is the delicious thing that Big Brother mentioned also called the Divine Sword Fruit?”

“It seems so. This old man is not lying to us.”

Chu Xin nodded, drool dripping from the corner of her mouth.

“Then shall we return the treasures to him?” Chu Chen took out the remaining five treasures from his spatial ring and asked after thinking for a moment.

Chu Xin looked at these ancient treasures with a bit of reluctance in her eyes. But after hesitating for a moment, she said, “Let’s return them. We’ve already eaten a few anyway. Let’s return these to him.”

“Alright!” Chu Chen nodded and said.

Then Chu Xin removed the Truth Talisman and asked again, “Grandpa, after you send us to the Divine Sword Fruit, we will return these treasures to you.”

“Okay.”

The old man nodded. Then, with a wave of his hand, he took Chu Xin and Chu Chen, along with the little two-headed pig, and instantly arrived in front of a pool.

The pool was filled with a dense white mist, and both the mist and the pool emitted a powerful sword intent.

“This is the Divine Sword Pool. The Divine Sword Fruit is in this pool. As for the exact location, you will have to find it yourselves. However, the Divine Sword Fruit is not yet ripe. It will taste better after it ripens,” the old man said with a smile.

Anyway, the Divine Sword Fruit would eventually be picked and consumed by the prodigies. Giving them to these two brats was no different, and he could get the foundations back. The old man felt it was worth it.

“Here you go, Grandpa,” Chu Chen handed the five ancient treasures to the old man.

The old man looked at the only five remaining foundations and felt like crying.

Forget it. Getting five back was better than none. At least he could continue to maintain the protective formation, although its power would be weakened.

“Old Grandpa, is this water drinkable?” Chu Xin asked curiously, lying on the edge of the God Sword Pool, looking at the clear water of the sword pool.